It would hopefully also instill some more realism in actors as well. Now they earn super-stellar wages (multi-million dollar deals in some cases) for 6 months worth of work. I'd like to earn that as well.
I agree with you, that there are a lot of crayon-wielding crazy kids who think they can write. But it's not necessarily a bad thing that there are many people out there who think they can write.
What you think as rubbish, might be delightful pulp fiction for me. :)
My point is merely that I prefer to have choice, rather than a monolith deciding for me what I can and cannot read.
And I'm suspecting a lot of blacked out words still. But I might just be cynical/jaded.
I'm too tired with this copyfight. They keep trying to screw our consumer rights, but act all uppity whenever we give them a blow back.
It's the same on all levels. Be it copyright, patentlaw, and all other "intellectual" "property" "rights".
Big Media (and other corporations) only have their direct bottom line in mind, and none of the consumer rights. And because they have the big bucks, they can afford good lobbyists and spend money on trips for politicians, who then become shills for them.
I'm sick and tired of it.
I wish I truly had a say in all this. Yes, I can vote and I do. But vote on who?
They all lie and cheat. Big promises during the election, but after they have been elected, it's business as usual. What promises?
So you're saying that even if these unpublished authors release digital versions, it wouldn't help them pick up steam, because the majority are bad authors?
What, are you high or something?
Yes indeed, it takes just 3 or 4 minutes to know if a music track is good or bad, but it takes an hour or 2 to see if a movie is bad, and yet, even unlabeled moviemakers are gaining traction.
You need to see the advertisement side of free ebooks/music/films.
Publishers, as much as I hate them, serve as a gate keeper on minimum standards
I'm sure there are lots of examples, where publishers turned a later bestseller down, because they didn't recognize the marketability/quality of the book.
After all what you think is an awful book, might be something that I enjoy.
I agree, however on the pricing scheme of ebooks. An ebook has less value (because I can't resell it) for me as consumer, so it makes no sense to me to buy an ebook at the same price as the paperback.
The money you paid for a newspaper was never for the news, but to offset the printing costs. The news was being paid for by ads. That's the case for the paper newspaper, and also for the online newspaper. If these 'newspapers' can't accept that, then they have no place in the market, whatsoever. And deserve to die off.
Sure, if you put your older news (like say, after it's been freely accessible for 2 weeks) behind a paywall, I might be able to understand it.
But this is about them limiting you how many times you can access their website for free. After 5 visits each month: "I'm sorry sir, but you are forbidden to access this site, unless you pay us." That kind of trick will rarely if at all work on Joe Schmoe.
By quoting people, you basically are already infringing that person's copyright.
By forwarding an email, you are infringing copyright.
Does that make anyone a scumbag? (well only if it was a forward of a forward of a forward of some sort of chainletter-type email, then yes.)
Yes, I know, fair use, but as the big media companies like to trot out: "fair use is a only defense, not part of the law."
Jonathon Coulton to name one. Started off as a computer programmer, who decided to release a new song for free on his blog for a period of time.
Now full-time artist, able to live off of it. Without the help of labels.
And there are many more examples to be had.
What's an artist for the RIAA?
You drag some eye-candy from the street, have him/her "sing" something that got pooped out by a two-bit songwriter, jack the sound up with a computer, polish, glitter, bling, and blast that 12 times an hour on every radio station that Clear Channel owns.
Make a reality soap around him/her, and add extra bling!
And make sure that Wal*Mart sells only those records.
some artists seem to make their name using good quality music and advertising themselves using networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
But I think the most important part is the quality of the music. If it's crap, that artist has a much smaller chance of making it in the musical ecosphere. And that's probably why the RIAA labels are running scared, because they know that what they are producing is NOT what the people want to hear.
How likely do you think it is, on the scale that is the Internet, that everyone in the market follows this example?
If this newspaper's competition suddenly see a spike in their adviews, do you really think it's likely that they want to cut those people off?
Sure, there is no shortage of short-sighted CEOs running a lot of businesses (into the ground), but not every newspaper in the world is run by an artard.
"We don't have to compete with these pirates, we need to litigate them out of existance. Yes, that'll work."
Welcome to the real world, media companies, I'll be over there, eating popcorn (to help the "struggling" corn farmers of course) watching you struggle to your inevitable and impending death.
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What you think as rubbish, might be delightful pulp fiction for me. :)
My point is merely that I prefer to have choice, rather than a monolith deciding for me what I can and cannot read.
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I'm too tired with this copyfight. They keep trying to screw our consumer rights, but act all uppity whenever we give them a blow back.
It's the same on all levels. Be it copyright, patentlaw, and all other "intellectual" "property" "rights".
Big Media (and other corporations) only have their direct bottom line in mind, and none of the consumer rights. And because they have the big bucks, they can afford good lobbyists and spend money on trips for politicians, who then become shills for them.
I'm sick and tired of it.
I wish I truly had a say in all this. Yes, I can vote and I do. But vote on who?
They all lie and cheat. Big promises during the election, but after they have been elected, it's business as usual. What promises?
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What, are you high or something?
Yes indeed, it takes just 3 or 4 minutes to know if a music track is good or bad, but it takes an hour or 2 to see if a movie is bad, and yet, even unlabeled moviemakers are gaining traction.
You need to see the advertisement side of free ebooks/music/films.
Publishers, as much as I hate them, serve as a gate keeper on minimum standards
I'm sure there are lots of examples, where publishers turned a later bestseller down, because they didn't recognize the marketability/quality of the book.
After all what you think is an awful book, might be something that I enjoy.
I agree, however on the pricing scheme of ebooks. An ebook has less value (because I can't resell it) for me as consumer, so it makes no sense to me to buy an ebook at the same price as the paperback.
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Sure, if you put your older news (like say, after it's been freely accessible for 2 weeks) behind a paywall, I might be able to understand it.
But this is about them limiting you how many times you can access their website for free. After 5 visits each month: "I'm sorry sir, but you are forbidden to access this site, unless you pay us." That kind of trick will rarely if at all work on Joe Schmoe.
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By forwarding an email, you are infringing copyright.
Does that make anyone a scumbag? (well only if it was a forward of a forward of a forward of some sort of chainletter-type email, then yes.)
Yes, I know, fair use, but as the big media companies like to trot out: "fair use is a only defense, not part of the law."
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Now full-time artist, able to live off of it. Without the help of labels.
And there are many more examples to be had.
Why don't you show proof that it DOESN'T work.
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You drag some eye-candy from the street, have him/her "sing" something that got pooped out by a two-bit songwriter, jack the sound up with a computer, polish, glitter, bling, and blast that 12 times an hour on every radio station that Clear Channel owns.
Make a reality soap around him/her, and add extra bling!
And make sure that Wal*Mart sells only those records.
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But I think the most important part is the quality of the music. If it's crap, that artist has a much smaller chance of making it in the musical ecosphere. And that's probably why the RIAA labels are running scared, because they know that what they are producing is NOT what the people want to hear.
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If this newspaper's competition suddenly see a spike in their adviews, do you really think it's likely that they want to cut those people off?
Sure, there is no shortage of short-sighted CEOs running a lot of businesses (into the ground), but not every newspaper in the world is run by an artard.
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Not sure what was wrong with me, yesterday, but I forgot to type parts of sentences throughout the day.
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Welcome to the real world, media companies, I'll be over there, eating popcorn (to help the "struggling" corn farmers of course) watching you struggle to your inevitable and impending death.
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